Quotes

Meeting

“Sometimes you lose sight of that when you’re getting paid to do it and that’s what I was alluding to — you have to remember why you started doing this. I said to the players, ‘There’s not a day I don’t come out here and have fun’ and they all giggled. But I enjoy what I’m doing and they should, too. Even on the worst days, it beats working.”

Ticats head coach George Cortez, who tried to keep things in perspective at practice this week.

“You have to be challenged by these things. There are no excuses. To waste thoughts of energy creating the thought ... is not the way you want to go about doing your business. Embrace the opportunity to do something on a short week. This isn’t the first time in history football teams have played on a short week and did well. We expect to do that.”

Montreal head coach Marc Trestman on playing twicein six days.

“It’s important for me — if I see something — to relay it to the guys. In order for me to be able to do my job, I need the guys’ help. It’s a partnership here. I always tell them that if they see something from me, to tell me, as well. It was that stuff that was shared. I’m glad that we had that session — that sit-down, man-to-man session — and I think it’ll make us better. It needs to, because this is a big game coming up against Montreal.”

Hamilton QB Henry Burris after the team’s offensive leaders met on Monday for a players-only session.